Berberian Sound Studio

You guys are idiots.

how so emil.y? conflicting opinions, neither of them right?

I agree with ward fowler about 'kill list'. but i thought the cuts between language and tone in 'bss' were integral to the idea of shifts in sound, language and their source (the ontology of sound?) creating the horror pervading the engineer's displacement from home in his new job (the uncanny?)

BBS woulda worked if it was, like, 45 minutes long. It took its few ideas and stretched them paper thin.

BSS*

i like the end of kill list, but i love wicker man and don't look now, and if you put them together, that's basically the end of kill list.

After having the night/morning to think about it, I think where the film falls apart is the it never established even the slightest sense of eeriness or dread - which isn't a problem per se, but it felt like that was their intention.

its like a british sitcom about an english sound man in italy without the jokes

best thing about it was all the foley/analogue equipment/technique fetishising

made me want to watch blow up or the conversation

xpost yeah, it just wasn't scary or creepy or quite atmospheric enough. it seems to go some of the way, but i totally empathise with those who felt it could've gone further, even though i think overall it's a great movie.

yeah, this was no good

lies. still easily my favourite film of the past few years, having watched again the other day. possible a favourite film of all time.

i think presuming this is a horror music is a grave mistake

er, movie

when i recently watched the new bfi dvd of Dead of Night i got a real BSS vibe from the credits:

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=b5e1d5fdeb5e2abe5f7b90c98afabdac&media=deadofnight1972&type=mp4

Put off seeing this a long while, wouldn't have if I'd known it's not really a horror film; also a rather forthright critique of the genre's misogyny. Never really liked Toby Jones before, but this frustrated mama's boy role fits him like a glove.

The first guy in the studio (sound editor?) he's working with is a riot, then the director is even funnier.

(I think giallos are the worst shit in the world in case you've forgotten)

Yeah there's definitely some genre critique in here. It's meant as affectionate, but clearly it works either way.

also had forgotten Broadcast did the music

man I LOVED this

I really dug this. Those wacky eye-talians, amirite?

I'm not a huge giallo fan but I've seen and enjoyed enough of them to lol at lines about aroused goblins

I enjoyed the movie immensely up until the big transition 15 minutes before the end. I'm quite skeptical about how this movie is alternately classified as a horror movie or a thriller. Though broad, both of those labels presuppose certain elements that are completely missing from this experimental film. Still, it was a fairly good movie and I am so happy to see Toby Jones in a starring role. Though he has starred before, this is the kind of "actor's actor" that is all too often relegated to outer reaches of the supporting cast.

just went to see the duke of burgundy. v enjoyable. long-game fetishism and lepidoptera. a small figure of eight of sexual domination.

sound again central. the list of recordings listed at the end as if not more important than the visual scenery. pleasing joke in the credits - the informal English names of the moths and butterflies played by their Latin classification.

WHY NOT START A THREAD FOR IT?

v nearly did - or a P Strickland thread - and still might, but the film itself feels a little lightweight. not all in a bad way - wish there were more films that were intriguing bagatelles - but I'm still thinking.

actually that's not true, I'm sitting in the cinema bar drinking, but that's what passes for thinking round my way recently.

A Strickland thread would be better.

Title keeps making me think of the Mr. Show Burgundy Loaf skit

no men in this film btw. relying on Morbs or someone equally well informed to mention other general release films where this is the case.

That's a really good question, and a unique aspect I'm not sure I've encountered reading about this film yet.

the film is superbly punctuated by lectures on lepidoptera, with slow scans of the all women audience - they're all fantastically dressed and individually beautiful - in the way that is sometimes demeaningly termed "striking". the only exception being a slightly toppling badly wigged mannequin.

this film is as much about dress and dressing up as it is about anything else. the visual and aural aspects of the fabric are v sensually indulged in.

very high among 2015's anticipatings

will port all this over to a new thread when I get 'ome.

Saw the trailer when I went to see Goodbye to Language (another film of tiny bits of very beautifully done sound) (as almost all Godard) and I quite like to see this as well.

Thanks for reminding me that I missed my chance to see "Goodbye to Language" in Chicago, apparently. How does Herzog get a 3D documentary about a cave into theatres, and Wenders gets a 3D doc about a dance into theaters, but Godard's lauded latest barely sneaks in for a couple of weeks? And alas because this is meant for 3D, I have a sad feeling that means I will never get to see it.

I was quite taken with Duke of Burgundy.

The psych/soft folk soundtrack by Cat's Eye sounded good as well.

i missed this at ifc, sadface
josh, tbf, both herzog and wenders' films are narrative and about subjects people can easily grasp and are in focus

Hope I manage to see this next week.

I seen it. Very lovely and cosy, I wish I lived there. It is a lot like Morgiana minus the crime and identical twin stuff. At the beginning I thought the plot was going to be totally unimportant but it gradually becomes more interesting.
I think it's too long but I liked it a lot.